A Lifelong Journey, an epic drama telling China's great transformation in over half a century, has earned widespread applause.
The TV series consists of 58 episodes. It is adapted from a famous novel of the same name, won the 10th Mao Dun Literature Prize, one of the country's top honors for local writers. (start) in the late 1960s, the story follows the ups and downs of three siblings in a working class family in northeastern China, striking a chord with viewers for its details (vivid) bringing them back to old times.
Its author is regarded a representative writer of the "educated youth literature". He was originally unwilling (sell) the adaptation copyright as he believed it would be difficult to bring the story to life on TV. He also (praise) the cast featuring native actors from northeastern China. That instills a localized and distinctive flavor to the TV series, which is hard to be represented merely through literary (describe) in a novel.
Li Lu, director and chief producer, said the novel has laid solid foundation for the adaptation, with its (success) building of a group of convincing characters. With popular TV series or movies, the stories that have inspired such screen works will. also benefit and see (they) influence grow even further.
